Vertigo

[LazyGun]

I was suffering vertigo just watching this short video :)

It purports to show 2 free climbers ascending to the very top of the as yet unfinished Shanghai Tower, especially the bit at the end.

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/02/13/watch-a-secret-climb-to-the-top-of-chinas-tallest-tower/?mod=e2fb

[ummmm]

I can't watch that. It will make me feel sick....

[rockyracoon]

My knees went just looking at the photo above the video.

Feel queasy now.

[boxtops]

I'm not even opening the link :-(

[LazyGun]

This one is not quite so bad, even though it is at 10,000 feet. French extreme sports enthusiasts attempting to walk a slackline between 2 hot air balloons :) At least they have parachutes..

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2014/feb/12/stunt-10-000-ft-hot-air-balloon-walk-video?CMP=twt_gu

[rockyracoon]

Nope, can't watch that either :)

[boxtops]

why would anyone want to.....? I have enough trouble staying upright on terra firma!

[rockyracoon]

Beats me Boxy, I hold on to an aeroplane seat like my life depends on it, very tiring on a long haul :)

[andy-hughes]

A real sphincter-clenching experience for sure!

As much as I admire these guys, what about the men who built the thing in the first place - for them, it's their job, and they must wee ice-water!

[boxtops]

I'm not so bad in a plane these days, I can even get up and go to the toilet (it's better than the alternative, LOL).

[rockyracoon]

Lol Boxy, I hate having to use the loos on planes.

Andy, my husband is a scaffolder by trade and would quite happily get up that high (obviously with safety equipment) thankfully he's in management now and rarely fixes, it doesn't lend itself to a good nights sleep when you know he's sitting at the top of the likes of Canada House in Canary Wharf.

[Peter Pedant]

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I felt giddy when someone was monkeying around on my roof ridge. - ex forces so he clearly felt showing a clear profile was safe. Some have body vidz - one free baser's last words as he smacked into the gherkin was
aaah merde !
then a sickening body clunk/splat knocked him out....

some of them cheerfully put on handcuffs of the waiting police who are at the top...

[murraymints]

couldn't watch it all !

[ummmm]

Aren't we a bunch of wimps??!

[sandyRoe]

If I was here I'd have no appetite for lunch
http://mikehoolboom.com/thenewsite/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/lggpp0020%2Blunch-on-a-skyscraper-men-on-a-girder-giant-poster.jpg

[aelmpvw]

^^^ if they'd forgotten the salt they'd send the one in the middle